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Will Facebook buy WhatsApp?

Will Facebook buy WhatsApp?

Asked by: Super Userkruijs in Technology » Internet
Settled on 04/02/2013 21:56 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:Not announced before the end of Q1 2013 ut the mobile field is far more competitive when it comes to messaging and communication. Facebook’s Messenger has amassed tens of millions of users, but independent chat apps such as Whatsapp and WeChat have users in the hundreds of millions.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-01/whats-facebook-up-to-with-android

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Yes
Yes
Not announced before the end of Q1 2013
Not announced before the end of Q1 2013

Background

Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, according to sources close to the matter.

We’re still digging around on potential price and other details about how advanced the deal is. But as mobile becomes the most bloody battleground in the Internet’s game of thrones, you can see how such a deal could make sense.

For starters, it would be another way for Facebook to continue extending its touchpoints with mobile consumer. Mark Zuckerberg asserted, on the occasion of reaching 1 billion monthly active users on Facebook, that mobile would be crucial to Facebook reaching the “next billion.”

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/02/whats-up-with-whatsapp-facebook-might-want-to-buy-it-thats-what/

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